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Dutch subway slide

Leave it to the Dutch to install a slide in a subway station. Commuters are encouraged to use it if they're running late, and the official name is a "transfer accelerator." At night they play Bach. How rad is that?!

I totally love that! I wonder if it gets a bit crammed? Or if anyone chickens out at the last minute and then causes a minor traffic jam at the top while other subway riders coax him down. I work from home, but my husband's commute is 90 minutes each way!! yuck! (from one end of the DC metro to the other)

i visited utrecht (the town this is in) for a week and it is awesome! they have tons of public art and their apartments along the streets have big picture windows, like the shops in the west village, so the community can look inside and see their neighbors living "good protestant lives." at least that was their original intention long ago, as it was explained to me. i also remember everyone running and biking to the public athletic fields with their lacrosse sticks early saturday morning. i loved it there. super fun slide installation btw!

I said, "There is a slide that you can take to the subway station. It's where Dutch people live at." He said, "Uh huh." I said, "Where do Dutch people live at? Holland? Because there's no such thing as Dutchland, right?"